I'm assuming that facilities that have been using Houdini for a while
have got their translations pretty sorted before Collada came along - no
screaming need for it.
It's immediate benefit would be to smaller facilities or places where
Houdini is new that don't have the monkeys to put onto writing
translation scripts. Unfortunately, it looks like you need monkeys to
get ColladaMaya into shape for Linux.
Either way, there's no out of the box solution - which is a shame. Kind
of defeats the purpose.
g m wrote:
> Nop Justin, you are right, regarding ColladaMaya, is very MSVC/Win32
> oriented, some work needs to be done, but not impossible for Monkey
> programmers. I guess the ones who managed to make it work for Linux
> want to keep the recipe secret ;-)
> Gerome.
>>> From: Justin Martin <justin at dneg.com>
> Reply-To: sidefx-houdini-list at sidefx.com> To: sidefx-houdini-list at sidefx.com> Subject: Re: [Sidefx-houdini-list] maya camera to houdini
> Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2006 15:01:13 +0100
>> Andrew D Lyons wrote:
>>>> On a a similar note - has anyone looked at Collada with Maya yet? Is
>> there a scriptable interface?
>>>> I've had a quick look recently and the main problem is getting Collada
> out of Maya on Linux.
>> My understanding is ... Maya needs ColladaMaya. You need to get the
> source and compile the plugin for Linux. From what I've seen so far,
> this isn't trivial. Needs a bit of work to get it into shape. No
> makefile, it actually comes as a Microsoft VisualStudio project. Too
> weird for me I'm afraid.
>> I looked at it for moving camera's from Maya to Houdini and quickly
> put it into the "too hard" basket. Using simple scripts again for now.
>> Someone correct me if I'm wrong with all this.
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